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Grazed from PC Advisor. Author: Brandon Butler.

The OpenStack cloud computing project needs to get a move on it, says Forrester analyst James Staten. Specifically, he says member organizations need to start seeing a return on their investments, or else may become disinterested.

More than two and a half years old now, the OpenStack project has gained significant momentum in the past year, in large part because big-name companies such as VMware, Red Hat and IBM have joined the likes of Rackspace, Cisco, Dell and HP to contribute more than $10 million to the project. Despite the investments, Staten points out there have been relatively few "enterprise-ready" OpenStack-powered products on the market. Canonical, SUSE, Rackspace and Morphlabs are some of the companies with OpenStack distributions so far, he notes. Meanwhile, Rackspace and HP are two of the biggest companies to use the OpenStack code to power their own clouds…

Grazed from ITPNet. Author: Editorial Staff.

Ipoque is returning to GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK for its fourth year and is showcasing its policy control and bandwidth management solutions at the show. Enterprises are turning to ipoque to help manage large data volumes to enhance the experience of their customers and employees rather than adding more bandwidth.

“In times of cloud computing and exploding mobile data traffic in corporate networks, enterprise users have special requirements when it comes to their networks,” says Christian Müller, VP Product & Sales. “With cloud computing, decentralised office structure and more and more mobile devices sucking up resources, the pressure on network infrastructure is at an all-time high…

Grazed from AMEInfo. Author: Editorial Staff.

Huawei Enterprise unveiled at GITEX a complete ‘one-stop-shop’ cloud data centre solution, providing Middle East businesses with robust and highly secure networks, IT infrastructure and facilities that support applications and systems in the cloud computing era.

The news reflects Huawei’s commitment to modernising traditional data centres that can be empowered by safe, intelligent network switches and high capacity storage systems. The new generation of data centres will meet the high growth requirements of Middle East organisations and help them cope easily with the changing landscape brought by cloud computing…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jack Clark.

Amazon Web Services’s main cloud computing service, EC2, is having problems, which means businesses and developers could have trouble accessing their rented compute resources. The network connectivity issues with EC2 began at 10:08am (2:08am PDT) on Monday and were still in place at lunchtime.

"We are continuing to work to resolve the networking connectivity issues resulting in elevated packet loss for some EC2 instances in the US-EAST-1 region," Amazon said on its AWS global status page…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

2X Software, a global leader in corporate mobility and cloud computing, announced its partnership with Intel to deliver 2X ApplicationServer XG as a Hybrid Cloud solution through Intel’s AppUp SMB Service.

2X ApplicationServer XG is an award-winning virtual desktop and application delivery software package supporting major hypervisors including Citrix Xen, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. Features include integrated thin client management, universal printing & scanning functionality and high-capacity resource-based load balancing. 2X also offers customers secure remote access to ApplicationServer XG with the free 2X Client RDP/Remote Desktop for Android, Apple iOS, BlackBerry, Facebook and more…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

From the OpenStack Summit, Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that DreamHost, a global leader in web and cloud hosting, has deployed Opscode Private Chef™ to automate configuration and environment management for its new DreamCompute public cloud and DreamObjects cloud storage service. DreamHost is using Private Chef to automate the Ceph-powered object storage infrastructure behind DreamObjects, plus the OpenStack-powered virtual machine management and Ceph-powered block storage infrastructure behind its DreamCompute public cloud computing service. Private Chef enables DreamHost to reduce operations overhead and drive down the cost of its service for customers, while simultaneously ensuring maximum reliability and flexibility.

DreamCompute is a flexible, cost-efficient public cloud platform powered by OpenStack that delivers an easy-to-provision, secure and highly scalable solution for the full spectrum of compute demands. DreamHost’s DreamObjects is an inexpensive, scalable object storage service based on Ceph – the open source, scalable, distributed storage system – that provides an enterprise-class cloud storage solution for individuals and organizations of all sizes…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced Cloudforce New York—the largest enterprise cloud computing event on the East Coast. The event will take place Oct. 19 at the Javits Center in New York City, where Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will deliver a keynote on how companies are transforming their businesses for the social revolution.

More than 10,000 attendees are expected to register to be inspired at Cloudforce, as industry leaders including General Electric and Toyota reveal how social, mobile and cloud technologies are enabling them to connect with their customers, partners, employees—and even products—in entirely new ways. With more than 30 sessions and 80 cloud companies in the expo, attendees can attend visionary keynotes, participate in interactive sessions, see hundreds of live demos and join in unparalleled networking opportunities…

Grazed from AllThingsDigital. Author: Arik Hesseldahl.

A lot is expected of corporate networks these days. Companies are trying to add new services and support new devices. There’s always more data that has to keep flowing, more stuff being connected to it. And the network is expected to perform, no matter what. Now there are about five billion devices connected to the Internet and billions of individual users, all expecting their networks to perform.

The folks at Juniper Networks started to wonder if the world of networking has reached some kind of fundamental inflection point. They got together with the people at Forrester Research and surveyed 150 senior IT executives to try to get a better handle on how big trends facing the enterprise, like cloud computing and big data, are affecting enterprise networks…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

If there isn’t an OpenStack cloud you fancy, wait a second, there’s more — a lot more — in the pipeline. Cloudscaling, Metacloud and Dreamhost will all preview their take on the open-source cloud this week at the OpenStack Summit in San Diego.

Don’t fret if the OpenStack clouds now available from Hewlett-Packard, Rackspace, Internap and a handful of private-cloud-centric startups don’t suit your need. There will be more options to choose from very shortly. This week at the OpenStack Summit in San Diego, new flavors of the open-source cloud will be unveiled by Cloudscaling, Dreamhost and Metacloud, among others. Here’s a roundup of some of the noteworthy news:…

Grazed from Business Cloud9. Author: Mervyn Kelly.

Big Data is gradually becoming the next big trend in the ICT world. While it is still only nascent and many of its technical specifications are yet to emerge, one can already imagine the numerous ways in which the huge sets of largely unstructured data that exist today and will be created in the future can be used to our advantage.

In fact, the application of Big Data technologies is likely to become pertinent in every aspect of our daily lives; retail, healthcare, transport – all of these will benefit from the ability to better understand all the myriad transactions and interactions consumers have with technology throughout the day…